southsider2k5

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Jun 5, 2014 -> 07:11 PM) That saved the board months and months of debating Nola vs. Kolek, that's for sure. It saved thousands of keystrokes for TUC and Marty34. And provided lots of strokes for Sox fans dreaming of that rotation.

QUOTE (oldsox @ Jun 5, 2014 -> 06:58 PM) new word? Forget it, he's rolling.

QUOTE (Buehrle>Wood @ Jun 5, 2014 -> 06:57 PM) Was Kolek to Marlins rumored much? One person had it at BA> Everyone else said Rodon CONFIRMED.

FWIW, BA has been knocking the picks out of the park.

JJ Cooper ‏@jjcoop36 5m Confident that Gordon going to Twins at No. 5 which was rumored by everyone coming in. Draft set up well for them.

SoxNet.net ‏@SoxNet 12s The @whitesox select @CarlosRodon16 with the #3 pick in the MLB draft #MLBDraft #MLBDraft2014

QUOTE (Leonard Zelig @ Jun 5, 2014 -> 06:19 PM) why spoiler tags? People were b****ing about twittering before the pick actual is announced.

TYLER KOLEK TO MIAMI

Marlins

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jun 5, 2014 -> 06:14 PM) Marlins Or

Marlins

@johnmanuelba: Hearing #Astros will indeed go 1 with Brady Aiken. #MLBDraft

QUOTE (Soxfest @ Jun 5, 2014 -> 05:35 PM) This has worked out so well for the Sox .............pay the best draft pick available for once. This is why Sox system is so low on talent. How many of their first round picks have been worth giving up all of the rest of their picks for? Most years they get more production out of their later picks than their top pick. Punting on an entire draft is just dumb. Talk about low on talent.

QUOTE (The Ultimate Champion @ Jun 5, 2014 -> 04:31 PM) LOL at the money aspect again. Hawk was going on about that again last night too. No matter who you pick at #3 and give $5M+ to, you're still paying Jeff Keppinger more money than that to sit at home and slap his pickle around. Perspective. Don't be a-scared. Buy a dog if you're a-scared. Perspective is how much of your draft do you want to NOT sign, to sign one guy?

QUOTE (Bigsoxhurt35 @ Jun 5, 2014 -> 04:16 PM) We will but, were in this right now so why not try and win. Because that means giving up kids to win now.

QUOTE (Rowand44 @ Jun 5, 2014 -> 04:09 PM) In other words, nobody has a damn clue. [KennyWilliamslaughesanevillaugh]

QUOTE (Rowand44 @ Jun 5, 2014 -> 03:44 PM) Well it's the baseball draft, it's all "potential." Where I disagree with some is that I'm always taking the highest ceiling over anything else. It isn't just ceiling though. The odds of someone getting to that ceiling are pretty important.

QUOTE (witesoxfan @ Jun 5, 2014 -> 02:18 PM) You've been on this board for 12 years now. If you somehow missed the running "Mark Buehrle is not an ace" joke, then you can read through this thread (and 16 year old me talking like a clown) as a starting point. Kalapse crash landed a thread once too, but I can't find the thread. No doubt about it, that is a Hall of Fame Soxtalk thread.

QUOTE (chitownsportsfan @ Jun 5, 2014 -> 03:19 PM) Yea I'm not seeing that. Aiken and Rodon and Kolek are widely considered potential aces. Rodon's stats in college compare well with Strasburgs. Potential being the key word there.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Jun 5, 2014 -> 02:58 PM) I still wonder what Buddy holds over everyone to remain employed in baseball. When he managed, with every organization he managed, the team was better the year before and the year after he managed them than they were when he managed them. And his comments about some of the stiffs currently in the White Sox system lead me to believe he must be a volunteer they just don't have the heart to tell him to go take a walk. That of course being if you don't just view Bell as another Minister of Propaganda and take everything he states with a massive grain of salt, much like taking what Kenny Williams has to say at face value.

QUOTE (southside hitman @ Jun 5, 2014 -> 02:55 PM) Would you want a 10% shot at drafting and developing an ace or a 80% shot at drafting a #3? I'm those types of conversations are occurring in war rooms right now, possibly ours. Bingo.

QUOTE (Ozzie Ball @ Jun 5, 2014 -> 02:30 PM) Kiley McDaniel ‏@kileymcd 19s The Carlos Rodon bonus demand hammer has dropped. I'm told its $6 million plus. Aiken heavy favorite to go 1-1 now. As have the chances of the White Sox picking him.